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Some people have anxiety. Besides,strippers don't date customers. All they care about is how much $ you got

Now listen, and I have some past experience in this lucrative career, for the right price, you can get a good go-round with a stripper. Just wear a condom, and you'll be fine. And yes, strippers do only care about the money. Why else would they be flashing body parts to a group of old, sweaty men with their hands in their pockets? They have to make a living, just like you.

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I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.-Clarence Darrow

Thats what she said!! lol. Hey so tell me, what is it like dealing with those ww's? I read so much in the "Am i infected" forums, and i would think it be really annoying to have to responed to the same thing again and again.

Thats what she said!! lol. Hey so tell me, what is it like dealing with those ww's? I read so much in the "Am i infected" forums, and i would think it be really annoying to have to responed to the same thing again and again.

The sad thing about responding in the AM I INFECTED forum is that some people are not there for the science. to be fair, the most up to date HIV transmission science is offered in the "LESSONS" section of this site.

But some seem to think that their experience will be "unique" enough to warrant a departure from that science. That fingering "with menses" has never happened, nor been studied. That oral sex a few days after getting one's teeth cleaned will create a caveat.

I honestly think it is, at the end of the discussion, a need people have to be punished for what they perceive to be sins, or crimes, or offenses against the ones that trust them with their sexual being. HIV is not that. It is a virus, and it behaves in specific ways, enters through specific pathways (only recently understood) and carries with is neither judgment nor punishment. It is, to quote the meme, what it is.

Advances in HIV therapy have allowed many if not most people diagnosed in countries that offer even the most rudimentary healthcare a lifespan skatingly close to normal. side effects of the medications notwithstanding, they have all but transformed HIV from a certaintly fatal pathogen to one that, if caught early and treated appropriately, can indeed be managed. Granted, at a rather substantial ongoing cost.

Simply put, HIV is no longer the boogeyman. People are going to have to look elsewhere to find a blight from God to smite them for their wicked deeds.

But in the meantime, AIDSMEDS, which is first AND FOREMOST a support and informational forum for those affected/infected with HIV, will continue to offer the AM I INFECTED forum as a courtesy and a feature for those with questions, or in need. It was never designed as a primary focus for this site, nor should it ever become so.

So what is it like dealing with WW's? Sometimes pretty depressing. Because I get an insight into what people think when they see ME and know I am infected. Because the judgment they seek from the virus, they give freely to those who already have it. It's heart-wrenching, really. And it makes some of us decide that this is not the world in which they want to live, unclean and despised.

I for one am not here to be anybody's "filthy" friend.

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"Many people, especially in the gay community, turn to oral sex as a safer alternative in the age of AIDS. And with HIV rates rising, people need to remember that oral sex is safer sex. It's a reasonable alternative."

At age 19-24 I was dating a lot. But since then, I been in a drought. So I assume I'm not attractive enough,lol. Oh well, great while it lasted

Gone to seed by 30? Ok, I'll accept this is a hetero.

Posting excessively to Am I Infected is against the rules for many reasons1) A sign that the poster has other issues to deal with than fear of HIV. Fear of HIV functions as a symptom of some psychological challenge.2) The moderators answers to peoples fears are cut and dry. They don't need much further discussion. But the poster will want to discuss things on and on. See number 13) Moderators' time is valuable, why waste it again and again, after the necessary info has been given - See number 1.

I was in a antique/junk shop the other day. This nice looking old lady was asking the manager the price of everything and he was being so rude. After she left, i asked him why he was so rude. I suggested maybe she couldnt read so well. He replied, all the objects have a price, the price is never negotiated and she knows that. She comes in regularly and asks the price of many things and never buys anything. And when she hears the prices, she signs about how expensive it is. Its a tick of hers.

At least in here, the moderators don't get rude in the Am I Infected threads.

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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx